"Let's create a balance here. We do have to get out of this hole, but it is not going to be just on the backs of 12 percent of this budget."
"So every opportunity is gone as a result of H.R. 1."
"Job Corps successfully prepares 60,000 economically disadvantaged youth for jobs, military, higher education, with an astounding 80 percent success rate."
"Slashing the Nation's most cost-effective, accountable, and market-driven solution for the millions of youth who leave our schools unprepared for the workplace, in my view, is a wrong move at the wron..."
"this effectively terminates the Federal Government's role in the workforce development, something that did not occur under President Reagan's administration, not even under President Nixon."
"the budget stands in a sharp contrast to the plan outlined by the majority in H.R. 1, which includes radical spending cuts that will cost Americans jobs and jeopardize our prospects for economic recov..."
"the Republican budget looks to cut in half programs that work."
"It would seem to me that we would want to put some money in there to actually do so."
"The right will protect you. The right side will protect you."
"to cut the deficit, the majority could have ended $40,000,000,000 in subsidies to oil companies, $8,000,000,000 in agricultural subsidies to big businesses, $8,000,000,000 in giveaways to multinationa..."
"The question of deficit reduction is where you start? And it should not be on the backs of people trying to make a living."